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FROM AARP MAGAZINE  2008
"Juicy Fruit"
By David Mas Masumoto, July & August 2008
A summer spent bonding with my grandmother over peaches

I grew up on a small family farm south of Fresno, California. My grandmother, an immigrant who arrived here from Japan, never learned English. As a child, I knew only a few words of Japanese.
When I tell people that now, they say, “How sad that you never had a conversation.” But we did speak—through the language of food. My grandmother and I bonded during peach harvests ... read the complete article